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Minding the Gaps — Watch it Now!

In my April 24th post I talked about an event we had at Harvard called, Min(d)ing the Gaps: A Library Conversation About Research, Teaching, Learning . . . and Today’s Harvard Students. The panelists were Alison Head,R.J. Jenkins (see fabulous picture at right), Jane Unrue, and Stephanie Kenen, and, although they were talking about gaps in student research at Harvard, it has lots of info that I think will be of interest to many. And now you can see the video.

Cheryl LaGuardia always wanted to be a librarian, and has been one for more years than she's going to admit. She cracked open her first CPU to install a CD-ROM card in the mid-1980's, pioneered e-resource reviewing for Library Journal in the early 90's (picture calico bonnets and prairie schooners on the web...), won the Louis Shores / Oryx Press Award for Professional Reviewing, and has been working for truth, justice, and better electronic library resources ever since. Reach her at claguard@fas.harvard.edu, where she's a Research Librarian at Harvard University.